The President's Club continues its efforts to solicit funds for university projects, particularly those projects having direct impact on student life on campus. Members of the club donate to a special fund which is used in consultation with President Waterbury and approved by the administrative board of the President's Club.
In 2001 the club initiated the bench campaign to raise additional funds for student projects. In this campaign alumni and friends are invited to reserve for private dedication one of the green benches on campus. A donation of $5,000 will allow a plaque to be fixed to the bench, inscribed, as the donor wishes, with nice memories of AUB days or wishes for loved ones. Five benches have been dedicated since the campaign began. The most recent dedications include one made in July by Mr. Ramzi N. Kteily, an active member of the AUB Alumni Association of Abu Dhabi, in memory of his parents Nicholas and Violette Kteily, and another made in September by Mr. Nabil and Mrs. Jomana Zeineddin, who hope that their children Nayla, Heba, Ibrahim, and many other students will benefit from and enjoy the AUB experience.
Mrs. Laila Baroudi, chairperson of the President's Club, hopes many more benches will be dedicated in the near future and that all 72 AUB benches will eventually carry inscriptions of special memories. All those interested in having a bench inscribed should contact Mr. Ibrahim Khoury, director of the Office of Information and Public Relations (telephone: 03-241660), or Mr. Sadik Al-Assa'd, associate director of development (telephone: 01-340176).

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